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Blog Post:  Posted May 16, 2010, 4:40 pm by Dan Sadowsky

Video: Empowering displaced women in Putumayo

Country: Colombia

Part of our assistance to newly displaced families in Colombia's Putumayo department includes skills training so they can earn a living.

Here, women learn how to make handbags that can fetch a good price locally.

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